U.S. - Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey

242 S.

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction. From "disinterested benevolence" to "benevolent hegemony": the development of the U.S./Middle Eastern relationship / Magnus T. Bernhardsson -- On the formal study of Near Eastern languages in America, 1770-1930 / Benjamin R. Foster -- American Palestine : Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Holy Land in the nineteenth-century American Imagination / Hilton Obenzinger -- "Drying up the Euphrates" : Muslims, Millennialism, and Early American missionary enterprise / Timothy Marr -- Missionaries, Peasants, and the protection problem : negotiating Coptic reform in nineteenth-century Egypt / Paul D. Sedra -- "Is this not the ugliest of treacheries?!" diplomacy, culture, and the origins of Anti-Americanism in Egypt / Erez Manela -- U.S./Iranian relations, 1911-1951 / Mansour Bonakdarian -- Khomeini's great satan : demonizing the American other in the Islamic Revolution in Iran / Abbas Amanat -- "Besotted with the bright lights of imperialism"? Arab subjectivity constructed a